payroll tax, gas two things affect my wallet. adam: they're looking backwards. you have oil below $88 a barrel. tracy: i haven't felt that. adam: hopefully we'll feel it soon. tracy: we have stocks selling off, down about 19 points. the vix also known as the wall street fear index is soaring. let's head down to nicole petallides on the floor of the exchange. the vix will tell you what will happen 30 days from now, right? it is a gauge of the future. that means we're nervous about the future. >> that's exactly right. what it does it takes into account the volatility and fear in the market over the 30 days ahead for the s&p 500. that's exactly what we're seeing here today. we're seeing it at a level of 1 d. it was up over 24% earlier today. we're certainly seeing the volatility here on wall street. we have really seen that just this week alone. on monday we were down 265 points. yesterday we gained only to pull back again today and take out monday's lows. we're seeing broad based selling across the board. the more economically sensitive sectors are the ones gettin